Making High School Grades Meaningful

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The adjustment of high school grades for differences among high schools in erading standards and practices is a problem Which I:DJ.st be dealt with in any prediction system which utilizes 'hiel1 SCl1001 grades in predicting academic success in colleee. Similarly, the need for adjustment of college grades for differences among colleges "'1i.ll also enter into the picture in the operation of a ce...

Yoga May Mitigate Decreases in High School Grades

This study involves an exploratory examination of the effects of a 12-week school-based yoga intervention on changes in grade point average (GPA) in 9th and 10th grade students. Participants included 95 high school students who had registered for physical education (PE) in spring 2010. PE class sections were group randomized to receive either a yoga intervention or a PE-as-usual control conditi...

Making monitoring meaningful

Conservation monitoring in Australia has assumed increasing importance in recent years, as societal pressure to actively manage environmental problems has risen. More resources than ever before are being channelled to the task of documenting environmental change.Yet the field remains crippled by a pervasive lack of rigour in analysing, reporting and responding to the results of data collected. ...

President's page: making imaging meaningful.

Making meaningful inferences about magnitudes.

A study of a sample provides only an estimate of the true (population) value of an outcome statistic. A report of the study therefore usually includes an inference about the true value. Traditionally, a researcher makes an inference by declaring the value of the statistic statistically significant or nonsignificant on the basis of a P value derived from a null-hypothesis test. This approach is ...